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Commons, House of: report of the commit- 
tee onjails, lxi 363 
acts, Ixi 385 
For reports of the joint proceedings of 
the Lords and Commons, see Parlia- 
ment; and for the building called the 
House of Commons, see Westminster 
Hall. . 
Comnenus, Eman. emp. x 1 
Comorra, earthquake at, xvi 75] 
Companies, joint stock, indictment of one, 
li 317 J 
Compass, Halley’s theory of the variation, 
ii 285 
see. ——— chart, ii 286 
+++. invention of the, vii 253 
+... discovery of the variation, vii 255 
dip, 7. 
variation of the varia- 
on insolvent 
tion, 7. 
».+« tables of the variation, viii 131] 
..+. the variation not a sufficient guide to 
the longitude, xxvii 158 
..+. improved, xxix 83. xxxviii 448. x1 69 
Compere, gen. xlviii 142, 593 ; 
Compton, bish. H. xxxvii 117*] liii 484 
earl. See Northampton, marq. 
J. W. liii 306. liv 401. lv 378. lvi 
368. lvii 334. Iviii 422. Ix 401. xi 399 
lady Frances, xlviii 417 
lieut. H. (N) xli 83 
sir W. xxviii 165 
Spencer, earl of Wilmington, vi 
73. xxxii 83} lxi 460 ; 
Spencer Joshua, earl of, lv 201] 
]xi 154] 
Comus (slight of hand man) ix 101] 
Comyn, couns. liv 297. lvii 289. lx 296 
Con, fath. vi 254 
Conant, sir Nath. xxxix 14, ly 22] lviii 96 
Conca, prince of, vi 22 
Conception, extraordinary case of, v 69 
Concogna, a S. American tea plant, iii 69] 
Condamine, C. M. de la, vi 77] 161, 167. vii 
245. xi 103] xii 89, 282. xix 69. xliv 28. 
xlix 845 
+++. address to the English nation, vi 166] 
+». on the velocity of racehorses, vi 63 
eur face of the earth throughout 
Italy, vi 69 
+... —— arts and utensils of the ancients, 
xi 142 ‘ 
ert Lew. prince of, duke of Enghein, v 
—— madlle. la, ii 87 
—— Lewis Joseph, prince of, iv 30] v 
24) 27] 48] x 210) xi 197] xvii 30] xxxi 
209*} 255°) xxxiii 129, 158, 167, 173, 
183, 194. xxxiv 18] 263. xxxv 2. xxxix 
80] 138] 159. x1 8, xli 272) xiii 208] 
xlvi 382, 639 
«+++ death of, lx 73 
Docersened the great, vi 89, xxxiy 897] 
| Seae account of, xi lg 
: 
159 
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Condell, vi 180 
Condor, li 932 
Condorcet, marq. de, xxviii 198] xxxiv 5] 
14] 25] 51x] 60) 77] 84] 113] xxxv 17] 
218] 243] xxxvi 134] xlii 349” 
..+- death of, xxxviii 340 ; 
Conduit, xix 25 
Conduit street, fires in, 1i 306. Ivii 10 
Coneybeare, Mrs., and her two daughters 
murdered, xvi 108] 
Confederacies, inherent weakness of, xlix 2 
Confirmation of a farmer and seventeen of 
his children, xliii 18 
Conflans, de, ti 22, 51, 127, 128. iii 55] 
.-.. defeated by Hawke, ii 52. xxv 226*] 
..-+ his account of the battle, ii 263 
Confucius, xlviii 868 
Congers, large, iii 142] xii 69] 
Congo, river, lvii 579 
Congo Jack, barbarous treatment of, lx 116] 
Congress, appointed to meet at New York, 
on the arrival of the stamp act, viii 53] 
«... assembled at Philadelphia, resolutions 
on importation from G. Britain, xvii 166] 
xviii 27] 
+... petitions to the king, xvii 171] 203] 
xvili 28] 55] 121*] 262] xix 45] 93] xxi 
108] 
--+. address to the people of G. Britain, 
xvii 207] xviii 30] 121*] 
+++» association of, xvii 214] 
--+- address to the province of Quebec, 
xvii 218] xviii 32] 
+++» opening of, at Philadelphia, xviii 23] 
instructions to the deputies, xviii 24] 
+++. acts of, 7b. 
.... letter to gen. Gage, xviii 25] 
declaration of rights, 76. 
«+.» conclusion of the session, xviii 36] 
-.e. New meeting, xviii 130*] 
++-- resolves the raising of an army and 
issuing a paper currency under the 
guaranty of the United Colonies, 7. 
.... prohibits all supplies of the British 
fisheries, xviii 131*] 
-... declares the compact between the 
crown and the people of Massachusett’s 
Bay dissolved, xviii 133*] 
-».. forbids all supplies to the British 
troops, 2b. " 
-+.. appoints Dr. Franklin to the post- 
office, 2d. 
-.-. declarations of, xviii 139*] 257] xix 
36] 
--.. lord North’s proposition discussed, 
xviii 140°] 
-- ++ general officers appointed, xviii 141*] 
- articles of confederation between the 
colonies, xviii 253] xix 35] 264] xx 23] 
... decree for opening trade after a cer- 
tain period, xvili 255] xix 35] 
.--. address to the inhabitants of the 
British empire, xix 33] 
+++» circular to the colonies on the establish 
ment of governments, xix 163°] 
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